Re: [vic] anyone seen THIS Metcard behaviour?

["Johann Fan" <jyfx@optusnet.com.au>]

You don't have to jump the gates.. just walk up to it and lift your leg
underneath the barriers and they open automatically...

cheers
Johann

Daniel Bowen wrote in message ...
>Hmm, keep in mind, Box Hill has gates. Unless you're prepared to jump them
>(as people often do in the Elizabeth Street subway at Flinders Street),
>there's not much choice. I don't see many people validating already
>validated tickets at other stations, or on trams.
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>Daniel
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>"Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in message
>39B72C63.565A9073@werple.net.au">news:39B72C63.565A9073@werple.net.au...
>> This is the beauty of splitting the Met into two companies: they
shouldn't
>> be identical (just like Ansett & Qantas).
>> The symptoms could be explained by connex having to give an extra day as
>> penance for poor performance over the last quarter, while Bayside does
not
>> have to do this.
>>
>> As ever, you shouldn't have to poke a monthly into an entwerter at all
>> after the first occasion.  Bit by bit the punitive rules are being
>> absorbed by the community as ok: just what the previous Hitler-style
>> government knew would happen.
>>
>> pshute@melbpc.org.au wrote:
>>
>> > I have a monthly ticket, due to expire on September the 16th.  That's
>> > that expiry date printed on the back, and that's the expiry date that
>> > validators always flash at me when I put the ticket in.
>> > Today at Box Hill the validator said "expires 17/9/00". Thinking I'd
>> > misread it, I put the ticket back in to go out again. Again it said
>> > the 17th.
>> > When I arrived at my home station (St Albans line), I put it in the
>> > validator there. It said "expires 16/9/00", as normal.
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Roderick B Smith
>> Rail News Victoria Editor
>>
>>
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